Through the State of Massachusetts, Strategic Link, Inc assists companies with training grants for a wide variety of training needs. Since 2000, Strategic Link has supported and provided training in over 100 grants for more than $5 million. These grants provide Massachusetts-based companies with funding to solve specific business performance needs. Training needs typically include business growth or operational efficiency, compliance to industry standards, or enhancing employee certifications. These grants involve no cash outlay other than paying employee wages during working hours (www.commcorp.org).

What Strategic Link Does at no cost to companies:

• Assist companies with performing their training needs assessments
• Facilitate the grant writing processes
• Provide the necessary training (funded by the grant)
• Customize training content
• Assist companies with creating the documentation required by the State of MA including:
  • Coordinating attendance sheets
  • Voucher submissions
  • Grant summaries
  • Quarterly reports
  • Grant close-out reports
  • General records management